Chapter 49
Luca’s POV
“Do not panic. It is going to be sessful.” The doctor said as he stood up and ced his white coat
back on his shoulder before stretching his hand out to me once again.
“I am not panicking.” I said to him with a scowl before throwing a re at his outstretched hand until he
dropped it.
“Do whatever you can to ensure it ends up sessful.” I said to him and he nodded his head as he
moved away from me towards the far end of the room where a couple of files sat on a shelf. I watched
as he counted the files slowly before pulling out a certain one and picking out a paper out of it and
returning the file back to its proper ce.
He got back to his seat and sat on it before writing out the form and filling it out until it got to the end of
the form.
“Sign here, please.” He said as he pushed the form towards me and stretched out a pen to me. I
epted it and stared down at the form, my eyes quickint skimming over the wordings and slightly
widening the moment I realized what the form was all about.
“Is thispletely necessary?” I asked him, ncing up from the form to stare warily at him, feeling my
chest pull tightly together for a slow second.
“Yes, it is. It has to be signed before we can be able to carry out a surgery like hers.”
“Fuck.” I swear quietly as I nced down at the form once again and ran my eyes over the whole
words on the form beforeing to rest on the area where I was supposed to put in my signature.
The form was about the fact that I was a hundred percent aware that the surgery about to be performed
on the patient is a really risky one and there’s a risk of it noting out sessful because of all the
following risks, which the doctor had written down.
I stared at him for a few seconds more before finally lifting the pen and writing down my signature,
hoping to God that the surgery wouldn’t end up going the wrong way.
I pushed the form and the pen back towards the doctor and he epted it midway, staring it at and
ensuring I had written in my signature down there before finally lifting his head up and saying.
“Thank you.”
I pushed out of the seat I was in and the doctor did as well, shuffling the papers which we had worked
on, into an empty file and stamping it with a stamp before cing it on the small pile of files on one part
of his table.
“Would you wait around until the surgery getsplete?” He asked and I nodded my head once as I
turned around and started to make my way out of the his office.
“We’ll be back with good results.” The doctor said to me as we both stood outside the hospital room
where Aria was currently being dressed up in preparation for the surgery.
After a little while, I watched as she got wheeled out of the hospital room on a bed, an oxygen mask
over her nose and mouth. Her face looked ashy white, way whiter than her normalplexion.
I leaned over the bed and studied her quietly, sending a quiet word of prayer towards God before
stepping away from the bed and watched as she got wheeled into another corner in the hallway,
I walked towards the seats in the hallway which was obviously for people to wait in. With a small sigh
escaping my lips, I sank into one of the chairs and leaned my head into my palms as I ced my
elbows on my knees, supporting my head up.
I was stressed.
Completely, thoroughly and totally stressed out.
I was stressed the fuck out.
The whole rest I had indulged in, in which I had woken up reallyte today — had all gone up in mes
as the day slowly went by.
Now, my shoulders were fully stiff and my head was pounding hard against my forehead that I could
feel the pulse against my forehead beating really fast, way faster than normal.
I also almost felt dizzy, due to the fact that I still haven’t eaten a thing throughout the whole of today. A
quick nce at the screen of my phone showed that the time was some minutes after six p.m in the
evening.
Not wanting to think about the fact that Aria was currently undergoing a very risky surgery, I picked up
my phone and started to look through my contacts, knowing that at this point, someone directly from
her family was supposed to be aware of her current situation.
Not wanting to speak to her father because the very tense air still floating around us which was
probably due to his hatred for my father — like I had a thing to do with all what it was that had gone
down between them in the past, I decided to speak to her elder brother — a cousin of mine whom I was
extremely distant from as well.
I was distant from all of them, including Aria. But Aria and I had a past when she was little, which was
why she had been able to reach out to me after I had lost my father, and why we had been able to
regain our friendship.
The rest of her siblings and I were very distant from each other and I had a deep feeling that they hated
me the way their father did for me, it wasn’t like I cared about who hated me and who didn’t. That was
And I’d never have been the first to reach out to them, if it wasn’t for the current situation their baby
sister was in.
I dialed the number of her eldest and first brother, Williams, a man who was almost the same age as I
was, only that he was a few months older than I was.
He picked up on the second ring and a voice that soundedpletely familiar drifted into my ear a
secondter.
“Luca?”
I knew he had my phone number the same way I had his, even though we’ve never exchanged a single
word on the phone before.
“Williams, yeah. It’s Luca.” I replied to him, my voice low and gravely. I shifted into the seat I was sitting
in and parted my legs open, feeling the edge of my guns dig into the smooth sides of my hips.
“This is really surprising and unexpected.” Williams started to say after a few seconds of silence and I
moved the phone a little away from my ear on feeling his loud voice fly into my ear to pound against my
forehead, increasing the pounding in my head a little.
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“I never saw thising. What can I help you with?” He asked without waiting for me to reply and I
rolled my eyes in irritation, in no mood for any exchanging of pleasantries or whatsoever.
“Aria got tangled in a risky mess, which got sorted out. But now she’s undergoing a brain surgery which
the doctor said was a risky one and could go wrong any moment.” I paused and allowed the words I
had spew out at a fast pace to slowly sink into his head before continuing after some moments.
“She got injected with a ton of hard drugs and it had affected her brain, and it might have affected her
heart and kidney as well, but none of that has been confirmed yet.” I continued, feeling my finger
tighten on my thigh as the words kept flowing out of my mouth, directly into Williams’ ear.
“Aria?” He managed to echo after about a minute and I signed out loudly, trying to calm the anger that
was starting to rise in my chest once again.
“Aria.” I echoed after him, confirming it for him and he was swearing in Spanish the next moment.
“Fuck! How are you aware about it while the rest of her family waspletely left in the dark?” He
demanded a few momentster and I pulled the phone away from my ear and red at the screen like
it was a FaceTime and not a mobile call.
“Because she reached out to me, obviously.” I replied after a few seconds and heard him curse quietly
beneath his breath and a few other sounds in the background like he was moving around at that very
moment.
“Why did she reach out to you first?” He continued and I felt the side of my lips pull into a thin, tight line.
“Why didn’t she reach out to you at all?” I decided to ask instead, since we were all going to act crazy
and stupid for now.
“So she’s in surgery now? Who signed the papers and everything?” He continued and I felt my
patience thin into a very tiny line.
“Are you nuts? Of course I signed it. I am family, the fuck?”
I heard him sign out deeply and waited a few seconds before starting to say again. “Fine. How did it all
happen?”
“I cannot give out details yet, it’s in the privacy of your little sister and I. Perhaps when she gets better,
she would be able to brief you about how it all happened herself.” I replied to him, feeling my feet
moving against the neat tiles of the hospital floor.
A silent feeling echoing those few words in my head which managed to make my chest tighten up once
again.
If she gets better, that is.
“Why can’t you give out details? Is it that bad?” He demanded almost immediately and I felt my eyes
unconsciously roll to the back of my head.
“Yes, it is.”
“But she’s my little sister, God damnit!” He exploded in my ear, through the phone and I shifted the
phone a little bit away from my ear.
“Well, she’s my little cousin and she chose to tell me instead…” I paused for a few seconds before
continuing, “Probably because she trusts me more.” I couldn’t help but add thest part, feeling prideful
of the obvious fact that Aria still trusted me a lot the way she had done when she was still young.
“Damn you,” He breathed out and I moved my fingers lightly against the material of my suit pants.
“Alright. Ry the message to your father and brothers.” I said to him and was about to end the call
when he started to say once again, “Wait… wait!”
“What?” I demanded, a scowl forming on my face once again. I noticed from the side of my eyes as a
tall looking woman came towards where I was sitting and took the seat a few spaces away from the
spot I was sitting in.
“What hospital is she currently in? I’ll get there as soon as I can.” He said and I snorted quietly.
“Why should I bother telling you? Not like she bothered letting you know about what was happening
when it started to happen.” I spat out almost immediately, my voice still on the same tone it was since
when I had started the conversation with him.
“Please.” He grunted out after another few minutes of silence and I rolled my eyes and hesitated a few
more minutes before starting to ry the hospital’s address to him.
“Thank you. I’ll be there as fast as I can.” He started to say after sessfully writing the address down
and murmured a few more words to him before finally ending the call and slumping into the seat even
more, feeling my head start to pound even more, now that I was off the phone.
I nced sideways and caught the tall looking woman staring at me.
She dragged her gaze away immediately the moment she noticed I was staring at her and focused her
face back on her phone.
I nced down at my feet once again, the woman who had obviously been checking me out, the least
of my problems at this very moment.